Leadership and Management Theories

Organisations: Leadership
and Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
DISCUSS LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT THEORIES....................................................2
Concept of Leadership............................................................................................................2
Concept of Management.........................................................................................................2
Similarities and Differences between Leadership and Management.....................................3
Leadership Theories...............................................................................................................4
EVALUATION OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME.......................................7
Leadership training and development programme.................................................................7
Importance of Leadership in training and development.........................................................7
Analysing the leadership training and development programme...........................................8
Identify and evaluate the benefits of this leadership programme for both the organisation and
individual................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is a process through which an individual motivates all its followers and help
them to perform in a particular manner to achieve certain per determined personal and
professional goals. Leader influence individuals towards hard work so that performance level of
followers can be improved to meet requirements of organisation. Leaders possess their own goals
and objectives in order to achieve their objective to creating a highly motivated team. Together
with leaders in organisation managers plays important role for managing various organisational
activities. Management involves controlling a group of people and directing them to work for
achieving goals. Management involves various activities through which resources available in
the business are utilised in effective manner for generating best productive results. Management
and leadership are the two different terms as management is related to planning and controlling
all the organisational activities and leadership is related to motivating human resources to work
hard (Adler and Laasch, 2020).
There are number of management and leadership theories available and application of
each theory is based on the organisational culture. Application of suitable organisational
management and leadership theory is important so that it can be easily accepted and applied in
the organisation. Leadership development program is introduced to enhance productivity,
improve moral and retain employees for long term. In this project report NHS organisation is
considered for appropriate explanation of leadership and management programme. Management
and leadership of the organisation required to be evaluated in order to improve over a period of
time for better results.
In the report literature review of Management and leadership is conducted evaluate the
leadership and development programme. basically the report is divided into two parts in the first
part a discussion is conducted on leadership and management theories there first the concept of
leadership and management are explained along with the definition of leaders and managers are
also provided. While discussing the leadership and management concepts evaluation is
conducted in which difference between leadership and Management is highlighted along with
respective similarities among them. Missing father two leadership theories are discussed and
elaborated in relation with large organizations that are trait leadership theory and transactional
Leadership theory. These two theories are identified and analytically described there their
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implementation and more specifically leader’s role in the organization according to these
leadership styles is also elaborated.
The second part of the report is Focus towards a leadership and training programme that is
conducted by NHS learning academy. In this part of the report the practice of training and
development it is conducted by companies is evaluated. Here once after analyzing and
understanding the meaning of training and development programme its importance is highlighted
in relation with leadership and the role of leaders (Busch and graser, 2020). Moreover at the end
a leadership training and development of programme which is provided by NHS leadership
academy is thoroughly examined. First introduction is produced of the programme moving
forward with understanding the eligibility criteria structure and training methods use in the
programme. Furthermore the benefits of this leadership training and development programme for
the organization and for the individual applying for it are identified as well.
DISCUSS LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT THEORIES
Leadership and management is a process through which a goal is targeted to be achieved
and a mission is planned to accomplish the targeted objective. Management plans all the
activities and control them to achieve targets and leadership motivates the entire workforce to
work in best manner so that all the objectives are achieved. Leadership and management both are
separate terms and available with some similarities and differences. The concept of leadership
and management is explained below along with its similarities and differences.
Concept of Leadership
Leadership
The leaders are the individual who helps the individual and themselves to do the right
things. The leaders set direction for their team members, build vision and create new ways and
manners for individuals to work with for becoming most effective. Therefore, leadership is a
concept of mapping out a path for workers and team members in order to win all tasks and attain
all objectives. This practice and position is exciting, needs dynamic nature person who is flexible
and who is an inspiration for others (Bush, 2020).
Concept of Management
Management
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